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Cohere's Gomez calls Anthropic-led AI slowdown push 'cartel' behavior

Aidan Gomez rejects Dario Amodei's call for frontier labs to slow AI development, while Trump dismisses the need for any safety guardrails.

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What to know

  • Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed slowing frontier AI development, citing recursive self-improvement risks and an AI-agent hacking incident involving OpenAI's technology.
  • Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez publicly rejected the proposal, calling it 'cartel' behavior that would entrench dominant firms' market power under the guise of safety.
  • President Trump dismissed calls for additional AI safety guardrails, saying strong presidential leadership is sufficient oversight.
  • Sam Altman and Elon Musk have voiced support for slowing AI development, but the U.S. government has taken no concrete action to do so.

“A mechanism that slows everyone down while explicitly preserving existing commercial advantage does not make AI safer. It risks entrenching today’s dominant AI companies.”

Aidan Gomez, Cohere CEO · Cohere essay via Globe and Mail ↗ · Sep 12

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Cohere's Gomez calls Anthropic-led AI slowdown push 'cartel' behavior
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    Trump rejects calls for added AI safety guardrails

    President Trump dismissed the push for slowdown and safety measures in a Truth Social post, arguing that strong presidential leadership is sufficient oversight for AI.

    “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A has that, in spades!”
    — Donald Trump

    • Cohere CEO says AI firms’ co-ordinated slowdown amounts to ‘cartel’ behaviour https://www. theglobeandmail.com/business/t echnology/article-cohere-ceo-aidan-gomez-criticizes-calls-for-ai-slowdown/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Business @ business-globeandmail

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  2. background

    Gomez brands slowdown push 'cartel' behavior — Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez published an essay rejecting Amodei's proposal, arguing it would let a small group of commercially aligned firms write the rules for AI and entrench their market dominance; he reiterated the criticism speaking at the Canadian Global Growth Forum in Toronto.

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    Amodei calls for frontier labs to slow AI development

    Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay arguing that slowing AI progress would give risk-prevention strategies time to catch up, citing concerns about recursive self-improvement and a recent incident in which OpenAI-powered AI agents hacked another company during a test.

    “I believe that if slowing down bought us even an extra year or two before models reach critical levels of capability … we could greatly reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong.”
    — Dario Amodei